Introductions- Introduce yourself!

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Permalink Reply by Chris Jefferies on September 24, 2008 at 1:07am

Hi Laura,

Laura S said:

Hi Chris
where is St Neots, I have never heard of it--apologies!

For all those who are geographically challenged about St Neots, you are in good company. This town of almost 30 000 people was once famously omitted from the AA roadmap! :-)

We are midway between Cambridge and Bedford, inside Cambridgeshire but right on the Beds border.

Permalink Reply by Kumar on September 24, 2008 at 12:25pm

Dear Miriam,

Hi there! I am Kumar - Laura's husband. I know that Laura has already written to you and I just want to welcome you personally and thank you for joining us in this fellowship of Body of Believers who are all travelling the same journey to rediscover Jesus and His church in a fresh way. I pray that we will get to know you via this E-church. It is lovely to hear of your heart wanting to get together with people to pray and fellowship. The Lord Bless you. Because of calvary -Kumar

Miriam Lantsbury said:

we've been on this journey for a while - recently 6/7 years but we were part of the home church fellowship that the dales started in the east end in the late 70s/early 80s and, although that church eventually became a larger institutional church, what we saw god doing in those days was always embedded in our hearts - touching ordinary people in ordinary homes.

we know a few people around the country who are of like mind, but not any near to us. there have been one or two simple church gatherings over the last few years but i haven't heard of anything for a while; my heart is just to get people together for prayer and encouragement but these networking sites are quite good for hooking up in the mean time. we've just been contacted by someone in st neots who wants to meet up so we'll def do that. i'll also email a few people and see if i can get them to sign up to this site and this group

M x

Permalink Reply by Kumar on September 24, 2008 at 12:36pm

Dear Stuart,

I am Kumar and I want to welcome you and hope that you will get to meet wonderful people in this site to learn and share from each other. I am really excited to hear of what you and your wife are already doing with young adults. Excellent!
Since coming to UK after been a missionary with YWAM for about 7 years based in Asia and in Canada and the Lord led us here to UK in 1989 since we have seen the 'lost' getting saved and discipling these believers and releasing them into the mission field to serve other nations and ministeries. Thank you for sharing Stuart. Every Blessings to you and your wife. Kumar

Stuart McCormack said:

Hi. I'm currently exploring Simple/organic/missional/emerging expressions of Church (largely through reading, but now networking). My wife and I are challenged by our own experience of Church not matching our understanding of scripture, as well as the fact that many in our age bracket (mid 20s-30s) are open to spiritual conversations but not to coming to church. We've experimented with simple church (through a form of cells) in a trad church setting and experienced joys (teens were keen to meet and explore jesus) and frustrations (the Church saw it as a failure that teens would not also attend 'church').

We're still working with teens and have a heart for our own generation. Nice to be hear - I'm looking forward to learning from/with you

Permalink Reply by Kumar on September 24, 2008 at 12:47pm

Dear Chris,

Welcome brother. I am Kumar-Laura's husband. Laura was just reading your post to me about your location of St Neots. I laughed when she read that St Neots once omitted out from the AA. roadmap.
It just reminded me of my home village in Malaysia a small little town cut out from the Malaysian jungles where I was grew up and I remember I couldn't find my town in the Malaysian map trying to point out to a hitchhiker where we are. I love small villages and town always felt at home.

Would love to hear of your spiritual journey with Jesus. Thank you once again for yuor post. Every Blessings.Kumar

Chris Jefferies said:

Hi Laura,

Laura S said:

Hi Chris
where is St Neots, I have never heard of it--apologies!

For all those who are geographically challenged about St Neots, you are in good company. This town of almost 30 000 people was once famously omitted from the AA roadmap! :-)

We are midway between Cambridge and Bedford, inside Cambridgeshire but right on the Beds border.

Permalink Reply by David & Elaine Lee on June 17, 2009 at 2:48am

Hi,

Just a follow-up on what's happening. Things have moved on. We have been meeting with some friends who are in a similar situation to us. They have also left "church" dissatisfied. We have just had them round for a meal & fellowship. We finally felt to ask them to come for something a bit more in depth. The net result was, we met together for the first time last Thursday. It went so well we are meeting again this week.

Praise the Lord!!!

David & Elaine

Permalink Reply by ALEX TITLEY on July 22, 2009 at 1:43pm

HI EVERYONE

my name is Alex and i was introduced to this site by william(bill)smith, i have been a christian for 20years. i hold a pastors diploma in theology. currently serving as a deacon and church secretary in my local baptist church. and when i had good health i used to subsitute my holidays to go and work in the slums of Equador hence my pictures "God's forgottten children, also in Kenya working with the massia warrior. i also spent two weeks on mission in Brazil pastor of a church, this story will come out later.

i have been married to my wonderful wife irene for 24 years, we have two daughters and two grandchildren, two little boys, you may get to see them later, if you are kind and good to me.

i have my own christian website called www.crossborder-ministry.com which is up and running but is still being tweaked.

Blessings in Christ

alex.t

Permalink Reply by Bill Drayton on July 30, 2009 at 9:33am

Laura,

I've also recently discovered thegodjourney.com website and realized that that is whatI have been looking for for a very long time. I've read "So You Don't Want To Go To Church Anymore". It echoed what was in my heart. I want to have a close relationship with my Heavenly Father which is authentic and real. Church sometimes makes you put on a mask. It's a performance! What was it like for the New Testament fellowships? Surely we have come a long way from there! Why do we pay lipservice to the priesthood of all believers, saying we believe in it, but do not put it into practice. Laura, Sara, my wife and I live in Christchurch, Dorset - on the border with Hampshire. It would be really good if we could meet up sometime - perhaps over a cup of coffee. And have fellowship!! Just getting to know one another, without being anxious either of us trying to "poach" the other for our particulr church. I believe in the Kingdom of God at work in the hearts and minds of people, rather than in the hierarchical structure we call church which is man-made and is subject to human control and manipulation. Or can be! God bless you in your work! If you want to get to know me more, I've posted messages on the forums of www.thegodjourney.com. I've also posted some poems on the premier community forum. God bless you both, Bill.

Permalink Reply by Dave Packett on August 11, 2009 at 5:43am

Hello Laura,

I knew the Thomas's first by name ( when they were based in Salisbury Plain) then later through friends who were involved in their Teachers in China work.

I am in my early 50's married to Stroma - have 4 kids and 7 grandkids at the last count.

I found the Lord eventually in my background of the Salvation Army - on moving to Birmingham I came across a House Church ( New Church) and association linked with G W North, Norman Meeton etc. I spent 15+ years " at home" with them.

I fell out of that world about 12 years ago and have not been a member of anything since. Our version of simple church so far has been 2 or 3 or a few more, seeking the Lord first and gradually seeing a bigger picture of where that leads.

I have a sort of feeling that this is meant to grow into some form of local (as simple as possible) expression but also what I will call a KRC (Kingdom Revival Centre) - a place for those wherever they are with "church" that want too see spiritual breakthrough and a kingdom corporate expression.

it seems to be time to learn from the "umbrella"movement of simple church - and see how that works out in our situation.

Dave

Permalink Reply by Anton on November 10, 2009 at 7:16pm

Hi this is Anton born in south London no live in Orlando Florida been doing simple church for about 1 yr now and growing in Christ Jesus every day. We about a dozen people we share our lives with and fellowship with each other. Enjoying the walking with Jesus:-)

Permalink Reply by REV.DR.DANIEL APPIAH ASINOR on November 11, 2009 at 12:51am

Chris Jefferies said:

Hi Laura and Kumar, and indeed all the others who've replied here so far. Isn't it exciting to see there are more of us than we thought!!

I'm the person from St Neots that Miriam mentioned. My name is Chris, I'm another of the 1970s home meeting bunch and at that time was living in Yatton just west of Bristol. Like Tony and Felicity, David and Elaine, and I dare say many, many others, our experience in those days was like a breath of fresh air but people often moved on and built something instead of just living. A classic case of 'doing' instead of 'being'.

The various movements that arose in those days (Kingdom Faith, Newfrontiers, etc, etc) have been a real blessing and have changed church in the UK almost beyond recognition. I don't want to take anything away from that.

But over the last ten years or so there does seem to be a new realisation of the particular opportunities available to smaller groups, a growing understanding that Yahshua called the church to go out to people rather than try to draw them in, and that love eventually compels us to do just that.

Be encouraged, all of you - there must be many, many little groups meeting at home. The church is like an iceberg, much of it is hidden from view, but I sense Miriam isn't the only one keen to meet up. The right time for that will come, maybe very soon. Just in my local area there are at least five regular meetings and we are beginning to find one another and network; you can read notes from some of our meetings if you like. It must be just the same where you live. They're out there!

Be very excited because the Holy Spirit is stirring his people up once again.

I was just about to sign this and logout but I've just been given a picture to share with you all. I saw a lot of people windsurfing. Some of them would only manage to go a short distance and would then lose the wind from their sail or fall off the board. Others with more experience managed to keep going and made better progress. But they came back to help those having trouble, and the entire group made progress together, moving in the direction the wind wanted to take them. And with practice all of them got better at keeping the wind in their sails, and all the time more and more windsurfers were joining them.

The wind reminds us of the Holy Spirit who is guiding us and pressing us forward in the way we should go. We do fall off sometimes, and we do lose the wind, but we just have to get back on our board and catch the wind again and continue. Falling off doesn't matter, getting back on is the important thing.

Grace, peace, and abundant blessings to you all. See you soon!

Chris

hope to meet you. a youth and a pastor in UK want a church to serve in or work with.
love to meet you.blessings.your son in the LORD,
Daniel.

Permalink Reply by Irene McGregor on January 12, 2010 at 5:04pm

Hi Laura

Have left an institutional church 18 months ago. Read books by Frank Viola, Wayne Jacobsen and David Fredrickson. Would be really happy to meet up with those on the same journey nearby. Any one in Berkshire?

Thank You
Blessings
Irene

Permalink Reply by Laura S on January 15, 2010 at 3:33am

Hi Irene, lovely to meet you. So sorry we are not so active on this site atm. There are some members who travel, we had a lovely visit from one a few weeks ago. We were very blessed.

We are in Surrey, not so far?

Irene McGregor said:

Hi Laura

Have left an institutional church 18 months ago. Read books by Frank Viola, Wayne Jacobsen and David Fredrickson. Would be really happy to meet up with those on the same journey nearby. Any one in Berkshire?

Thank You
Blessings
Irene

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